Oil separator



Patented May l5, i923 T @TENT PERRY H. GLNTZEL, F NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

OIL SARATOR.

Application filed october 13, 1919. Serial No. 330,179.

To all lwhom t may concern.' threaded for connection with the pipe lead- Be it known that I, PERRY HOMER GENT- ingfrom the condenser. zur., a citizen of the United States, residing The filter proper comprises a central perat Newton. in the county of Middlesex and forated tube 14, surrounded by a wire gauze State of Massachusetts, have invented cerscreen 15, which in turn is surrounded by a 55 tain new and useful Improvements in Oil thickness of linen terry cloth 16 of appro- Separators, of which the following is a priate texture for the purpose. The filter specification. thus constructed is centered and seated In the operation of steam power plants, around a flange 21 surrounding the opening particularly engines of the type em- 12 in the bottom of the casing, and tapered G@ ployed in the operation of cars, wherein guide frame 17, being mounted on the upper liquid fuel or hydrocarbon fuel is used for edge of said Harige around said opening for the generation of steam, the steam, after the purpose of guiding the bottom of the being used, is put through a condensing apfilter to its seat. The upper end of the filter paratus and then. re-used. The water cornis seated against the head B and held in a @e ing from the condenser is ordinarily laden central position thereby. with oil, picked up in the passage of the By this arrangement an annular chamber steam through the engine cylinders. The is provided in the casing A between said caspurpose of my said invention is to provide ing and the filter which communicates with means for separating, or filtering out, said the inlet opening 13 connected to the conoil from the condensed water before passing denser. it back to the boiler for the purpose of re- The oil-laden water coming from the conusing, soV that such water will be in better denser through opening 13 fills the annular condition for using, all as will be hereinafter chamber, surrounding the filter, and filters fully described and claimed. or percolates through the terry cloth, the wire 75 Referring to the accompanying drawing, gauze and the perforated tube and passes which is made a part hereof and on which out through the discharge opening 12 and a similar reference characters indicate similar pipe connected therewith not shown) leadparts ing to the boiler. The terry cloth takes up Figure 1 is a View of one of my improved and collects the oil contained in the water 80 filters, partly in elevation and partly in verexcept some of the kerosene, which passes tical section, and- With the water to the boiler, the water being Figure 2 a cross section on the dotted thus adapted for re-use and the kerosene line 2-2 in Figure 1, serving the purpose of preventing incrusta- In said drawings the portions marked A tion and deposits on the tubes and interior 85 represent the filter casing; B, the head thereconstruction of the boiler. of; and C, the bottom thereof. Having thus fully described my said in- The casing A is preferably cylindrical in vention, what li claim as new and desire to form, and has an annular flange 20 around secure by Letters Patent is: its upper end to which the head B is bolted A filter for removing oil from water pass- 90 by means of bolts 10. An annular packing ing from a condenser to the boiler of a steam ring 11 is interposed between said fiange and power plant,l comprising a casing having a the head to form a water-tight joint. head removable therefrom, said casing hav- The bottom C is likewise secured by a ing an opening in its wall for communicawater-tight joint in the lower end of casing tion with a condenser and another opening 95 A, and has a central opening 12, perforated in the bottom of the casing for communicainteriorly and screw threaded for attachtion with a boiler, a filter mounted concenrnent to a pipe leading to the boiler. it also trically within the tube and spaced from has a boss 13 on one side near its upper end, the wall of the casing to form an annular which is perforated and interiorly screw chamber, said filter being closed at the top E00 by the head of the casing and in communicnmy hand and seal at Boston, Massachusetts. tion with the said opening in the bottom of this 2nd day of Septefxber, A. D. nineteen the casing, a Wire gauze screen covering sant hundred :1nd nineteen tube and the wire auze screen surround@ w ,v w r 5 by textile materialgin the nature. of linen PLRR H' (IENTEL [LS'] terry cloth, substantially as set. forth. vitnessr In witness whereof, I have hereunto set E. V. BRADFORD. 

